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Texts published in the series no longer include critical apparatus; they instead feature an essay by a notable literary figure, usually excerpted from prior work - for example, the essays of Harold Bloom , V. Pritchett and John Sutherland have been featured. The cover art is a detail from J. Fuseli 's oil painting The Nightmare , and the detail was retained when the book was first reprinted as a Penguin Classic in However, reprints from onwards [9] feature the detail of a photograph by Sir Simon Marsden instead.

The series was first created in [1] as a 'sister series'[2] to the Penguin Classics series, providing critical editions of English classics; at that point in time, the Classics label was reserved for works translated into English for example, Juvenal's Sixteen Satires. The English Library was merged into the Classics stable in the mid s,[1] and all titles hitherto published in the Library were reissued as Classics.

The imprint is published in various languages, including in English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Korean. The first Penguin Classic was E. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey, published in , and Rieu went on to become general editor of the series. Rieu sought out literary novelists such as Robert Graves and Dorothy Sayers as translators, believing they would avoid "the archaic flavour and the foreign idiom that renders many existing translations repellent to modern taste.

Penguin Crime details Penguin Books is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in by Sir Allen Lane, his brothers Richard and John,[2] as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. Penguin also had a significant impact on public debate in Britain, through its books on British culture, politics, the arts, and science.

It is owned by Pearson PLC, the global education and publishing company, and Bertelsmann, the German media conglomerate.

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They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galapagos penguin, found north of the equator. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have evolved into flippers. Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sea life which they catch while swimming underwater. They spend roughly half of their lives on land and the other half in the sea. Although almost all penguin species are native to the Southern Hemisphere, they are not found only in cold climates, such as Antarctica.

In fact, only a few species of penguin live so far south. The largest living species is the emperor penguin Aptenodytes forsteri: Dutton was an American book publishing company founded as a book retailer in Boston, Massachusetts, in [1] by Edward Payson Dutton. In , Dutton made a deal with English publishing company J. Dent to be the American distributor of the Everyman's Library series of classic literature reprints. John Macrae joined the company in as an office boy and in was named president. In , the publishing and retail divisions were split into two separate businesses with Macrae acquiring the publishing side, operating as E.

Dutton and Company, Inc. It published children's books under the Unicorn imprint, with some books published in the s. Dutton Children's Books continues today. In , Dutton was acquired by the Dutch publisher Elsevier. The paperback publisher New American L A book series is a sequence of books having certain characteristics in common that are formally identified together as a group. Book series can be organized in different ways, such as written by the same author, or marketed as a group by their publisher. Publishers' series Reprint series of public domain fiction and sometimes nonfiction books appeared as early as the 18th century, with the series Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to Churchill founded by British publisher John Bell in Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world.

History Early history Random House was founded in by Americans Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint from publisher Horace Liveright, which reprints classic works of literature. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random," which suggested the name Random House. Random House grew into a formidable publisher over the next two decades.

In , it absorbed the firm of Smith and Haas—Robert Haas became the third partner until retiring and selling his shar The last brought him his greatest success. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years. His name was officially registered as Henry Morgan Forster, but at his baptism he was accidentally named Edward Morgan Forster. His father died of tuberculosis on 30 October , before Morgan's second birthday. It published the work of mostly U. Other authors published by the company in its early years include W.

Somerset Maugham and Joseph Conrad. In , the founder's son, Nelson Doubleday, joined the firm. In , Doubleday, Page The Modern Library is an American publishing company. Random House began in as a subsidiary of the Modern Library but eventually overtook its parent to become the parent company of what then only became an imprint of Random House. From to , the company published a high quality, numbered paperback series, but discontinued it in , when the series was merged into the newly acquired Vintage paperbacks group.

The Modern Library homepage states: In , on the occasion of the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House embarked on an ambitious project to refurbish the series. We revived the torchbearer Benson in Hutchinson's Magazine and then in collections in a number of books.

In , Walter Hutchinson stopped publishing magazines to concentrate on books. Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, the beautiful but cold Estella, and Joe, the unsoph The Penguin Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of the superhero Batman.

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According to Kane, the Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. History Early history Four years after Penguin Books had been founded by Allen Lane, the idea for Puffin Books was hatched in , when Noel Carrington, at the time an editor for Country Life books, met him and proposed a series of children's non-fiction picture books, inspired by the brightly coloured lithographed books mass-produced at the time for Soviet children.

The name "Puffin" was a natural companion to the existing "Penguin" and "Pelican" books. Many continued to be reprinted right into the s. A fiction list soon The Bodley Head is an English publishing house, founded in and existing as an independent entity until the s. The name was used as an imprint of Random House Children's Books from to It took its name from a bust of Sir Thomas Bodley, the eponymist of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, above the shop door.

Also notable amongst Bodley Head's pre-Great War books were the two volume sets: Foundations of the Nineteenth Century and later editions, selling over fifty thousand copies , and Immanuel Kant, both by Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Herbert George Jenkins was a manag The documentary depicts the yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. In autumn, all the penguins of breeding age five years old and over leave the ocean, their normal habitat, to walk inland to their ancestral breeding grounds.

There, the penguins participate in a courtship that, if successful, results in the hatching of a chick. For the chick to survive, both parents must make multiple arduous journeys between the ocean and the breeding grounds over the ensuing months. Three different cover designs of the Oxford World's Classics series.

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From left to right: World's Classics paperbacks were printed with minor variations in design and colour scheme. First established in by Grant Richards and purchased by the Oxford University Press in , this imprint publishes primarily dramatic and classic literature for students and the general public. Most titles include critical apparatus — usually, an introduction, bibliography, chronology, and explanatory notes — as is the case with Penguin Classics. Little Golden Books is a popular series of children's books.



The eighth book in the series, The Poky Little Puppy, is the top-selling children's book of all time. Many books in the Little Golden Books series deal with nature and science, Bible stories, nursery rhymes, and fairy tales. Christmas titles are published every year. Some Little Golden Books and related products have featured children's characters from other media, e. Television and movie tie-ins have been particularly popular. Since , it has been an imprint of Random House, publishers.

The firm developed out of the publishing business of John Camden Hotten, founded in After his death in , it was sold to Hotten's junior partner Andrew Chatto — who took on the minor poet W. Gilbert, Wilkie Collins, H. Scott-Moncrieff, , amongst others. In , the company took over the running of the Hogarth Press, founded in by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Active as an independent publishing house until , when it merged with Jonathan Cape, it publ English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca.

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It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse a North Germanic language , and to a greater extent Latin and French. Middle English began in the late 11th century with the Norman conquest of England and was a period in which the language was influenced by French.

It centers around a timid, stuttering penguin named Hubie who tries to impress a beautiful penguin named Marina by giving her a pebble that fell from the sky. Pictures under the Warner Bros. It was the last film to be released by Sullivan Bluth Studios before its bankruptcy in Plot Hubie, a shy, gullible, but kindhearted penguin, is in love with the female penguin Marina, who also likes him, but he lacks self-confidence leading him to be bullied by a much more impressive, but vain and cruel penguin named Drake, who also wants Marina, but only because she's the most beautiful It is owned by Random House of Canada, a branch of Random House, the international book publishing division of German media giant Bertelsmann.

The first known imprint of the press is John D. Rockefeller's Random Reminiscences of Men and Events. But the company d This is a list of English-language book publishers. It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade both for adults and children , religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.

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In , Random House launched its Canadian publishing program. Due to this international merger, both companies' Canadian branches merged as well, publishing international titles in this country as well as maintaining their Canadian publishing program. He was a close friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley and they influenced each other's work. Peacock wrote satirical novels, each with the same basic setting: Background and education The young T. Peacock's father died in in "poor circumstances" leaving a small annuity. DK, formerly known as Dorling Kindersley, is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages.

Established in , DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel including Eyewitness Travel Guides , arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe.

History DK was founded as a book-packaging company by Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley in London in , and in moved into pub Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley — that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition of the novel was published anonymously in London on 1 January , when she was Mary, Percy and Lord Byron decided to have a compet Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint with editorial independence.

It is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. In addition to classics, international fiction, and trade paperbacks, recently Pantheon has moved aggressively into the comics market. Many of its comics publications are high-quality collected editions of works originally serialized by other publishers such as Fantag Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in eponymously by the half-Scot half-American Jamie Hamilton Hamish is the vocative form of the Gaelic Seumas [meaning James], James the English form — which was also his given name, and Jamie the diminutive form.

Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton. Hamish Hamilton Limited originally specialized in fiction, and was responsible for publishing a number of American authors in the United Kingdom, including Raymond Chandler, James Thurber, J. White, and Truman Capote. Hamish Hamilton was established in the literary district of Bloomsbury and went on to publish a large number of promising British and American authors, a large number of whom were personal friends and acquaintances of Jamie Hamilton.

During the late s Hamish Hamilton Limited published authors including D. Brogan, Albert Camus, L.

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Popper's Penguins is a children's book written by Richard and Florence Atwater, with illustrations by Robert Lawson, originally published in It tells the story of a poor house painter named Mr. Popper and his family, who live in the small town of Stillwater in the s. The Poppers unexpectedly come into possession of a penguin, Captain Cook. The Poppers then receive a female penguin from the zoo, who mates with Captain Cook to have 10 baby penguins. Before long, something must be done lest the penguins eat the Poppers out of house and home. Popper is a house painter of modest means, living with his wife and two children Bill and Janie in the small town of Stillwater, Minnesota.

He has a happy life, but he is also a restless dreamer, spending his time reading of famous explorers in faraway places. One day, the Popper family tunes in to a radio broadcast by an Admiral exploring polar regions. Popper had previously sent the Admiral fan mail, and the Admiral promises Mr. Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in , which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in and remains part of that company today.

Ballantine's logo is a pair of mirrored letter Bs back to back. In , Ian Ballantine, a founder of Bantam Books, announced that he would "offer trade publishers a plan for simultaneous publishing of original titles in two editions, a hardcover 'regular' edition for bookstore sale, and a paper-cover, 'newsstand' size, low-priced edition for mass market sale. Set in , it is about a group of female students at an Australian girls' boarding school who vanish at Hanging Rock while on a Valentine's Day picnic, and the effects the disappearances have on the school and local community.

The novel was first published in in Australia by Cheshire Publishing and was reprinted by Penguin in It is widely considered by critics to be one of the best Australian novels. Although the events depicted in the novel are entirely fictional, it is framed as though it is a true story, corroborated by ambiguous pseudohistorical references. Its irresolute conclusion has sparked significant public, critical, and scholarly analysis, and the narrative has become a part of Australia's national folklore as a result.

Lindsay claimed to have written the novel over two weeks at her home Mulberry Hill in Baxter, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, after having successive dreams of the narrated events. Jonathan Cape is a London publishing firm founded in by Herbert Jonathan Cape, who was head of the firm until his death in Cape and his business partner Wren Howard set up the publishing house in They established a reputation for high quality design and production and a fine list of English-language authors, fostered by the firm's editor and reader Edward Garnett.

Cape's list of writers ranged from poets including Robert Frost and C. After Cape's death, the firm later merged successively with three other London publishing houses. In it was taken over by Random House. Its name continues as one of Random House's British imprints. Lawrence that he originally wrote in two parts and published in Lawrence wrote the first part in after visiting some Etruscan tombs with his friend Earl Brewster, a trip that encouraged the author to reflect upon death and myths of resurrection.

He added the second part in during a stay in Gstaad, Switzerland. Fifty copies were printed on Japanese vellum, signed by Lawrence and the copy number written in longhand by him, with decorations in color by the author.



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Other books in this series. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen. A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens. North and South Elizabeth Gaskell. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte. Great Expectations Charles Dickens. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad. The War of the Worlds H. Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy. Writer of six novels, numerous short stories and novellas and the biography of her great friend Charlotte Bronte, Gaskell was at first published anonymously but later in her own name.